Sort Of Explained

Sort Of
Type:	studio
Artist:	Slapp Happy
Cover:	SlappHappy AlbumCover SortOf.jpg
Recorded:	May–June 1972
Studio:	Wümme, Bremen, Germany
Genre:	Avant-rock
Label:	Polydor
Producer:	Uwe Nettelbeck
Next Title:	Slapp Happy
Next Year:	1974

Sort Of is the debut studio album by the avant-rock band Slapp Happy. It was recorded in Wümme, Bremen, Germany in May and June 1972 with Faust as their backing band, and released on LP by Polydor Records in 1972. In 1980 Recommended Records released a limited edition of Sort Of on LP, and the album was reissued on CD by Blueprint Records in 1999 with one bonus track.

Track listing

All titles written by Peter Blegvad and Anthony Moore.

Personnel

• Peter Blegvad – guitar, saxophone, vocals
• Dagmar Krause (credited as "Daggi") – vocals, tambourine, piano, woodblock
• Anthony Moore – guitar, keyboards, vocals
• Gunther Wüsthoff – saxophone on "Paradise Express" and "I'm All Alone"
• Werner "Zappi" Diermaier – drums
• Jean-Hervé Péron – bass guitar
• Engineered by Kurt Graupner
• Album design and cover by David Larcher

Notes

• Gunther, Zappi and Jean recorded through courtesy of Faust

CD releases

Sort Of was released on CD by Blueprint Records in 1999 with an extra track (from the B-side of their single "Just a Conversation"):^{[1] [2]}

• "Jumpin' Jonah'" (Moore/Blegvad) – the CD was mastered from a vinyl copy as the master tapes had been lost

The same master was also issued in Japan with an additional 3" CD single:

• "Alcohol" (Blegvad)

External links

• • Sort Of. at The Faust Pages
• Peter Blegvad Discography

Notes and References

1. Web site: Discography S . The Canterbury Music Website . 8 January 2023.
2. Web site: Slapp Happy: Review . Air Structures . https://web.archive.org/web/20060214051429/http://www2.odn.ne.jp/airstructures/review%20slapp%20happy.html . 14 February 2006 . dead . 8 January 2023.